Tuesday, March 7, 2023

The New Super Friends: The Incredible Space Circus (1978)

 



A typically fun episode. 

In this episode, Wonder Woman travels to a planet with strange creatures to stop some animal poachers. However the poachers find Wonder Woman and with their ray turn her into a monstrous creature. They then display the new Wonder Woman in their space circus. 

There is a lot to like about this episode. The idea of Wonder Woman being transformed into monstrous creature is a wonderfully suspenseful idea and automatically sets up how these seemingly normal people can still be a believable threat to the Super Friends. The design of said creature is simply wonderful. The action scenes are excellent and a lot of fun. The various planets we see throughout this episode are wonderfully designed and create a great sense of atmosphere. Once again the background art here simply looks great and is a joy to look at. I also love the great and creative designs of the various aliens watching the space circus are delightful. One gets the idea that the people making this episode had a great job coming up with these wonderful designs. This episode also features the delightfully corny superhero dialogue (especially between Batman and Robin) that I love so much. This dialogue reminds me of the 1960's Batman show in all the best ways.

On the downside, despite feeling like a threat to our heroes, the villains here come off as simply bland. There is not much to them other than being stereotypical cartoon villains. Even their designs and voices aren't that memorable. There is also too many "humorous" moments from Gleek the space monkey here. 

Well this may not be my favorite episode, it is still quite a bit of fun. 

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